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ARAB TIMES, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2011
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Man arrested at scene on suspicion of murder
Lebanese sheikh killed in UK mosque
LONDON, Sept 3, (AFP): Sheikh Maymun Zarzur, a
Lebanese imam, was killed after leading prayers at the
Muslim Welfare House in London, the Islamic centre said
Police investigation still ongoing
Saturday.
Zarzour was found dead on Friday after leading the
early morning Fajr prayers at the Islamic community cen-
CPS drop case against nurse over patient deaths
tre, Muslim Welfare House said. LONDON, Sept 3, (RTRS): Prosecutors said on Friday Nazir Afzal, the chief crown prosecutor for the north-
Police said they had arrested a man at the scene on sus- they had dropped charges against a nurse accused of west, said the charges against Leighton had been
picion of murder. contaminating saline solution after an investigation into dropped. “The inquiries, which are still ongoing, have
According to a Muslim Brotherhood official in unexplained deaths of patients at a hospital in not so far provided us with a stronger case which would
Lebanon, Zarzur is Lebanese and from the southern Stockport. Rebecca Leighton had been charged in July meet the test that there is sufficient evidence for a real-
Iqleem al-Kharoub region. He was in his 40s. with three counts of criminal damage with intent to istic prospect of conviction,” Afzal said. Spanish police officers detain a man during a demonstration against
Zarzur had been the imam at the Muslim Welfare endanger life and three counts of being reckless as to He said Leighton would immediately be released a constitutional reform in Madrid, on Sept 2. Spain’s lower house
whether life was being endangered. from prison where she was being held on remand. voted overwhelmingly to put a budget deficit cap in the constitution
House in north London since 2009. after a stormy debate, cheering markets but infuriating many at
“Our imam has passed away,” the centre said on its Detectives are investigating the suspicious deaths of Greater Manchester Police said they were investigat-
patients after a higher than normal number were report- ing the deaths of seven patients that may be linked to home. Lawmakers voted by 316 to five in favour of the constitution-
website. al reform, easily reaching the three-fifths support required. (AFP)
“It is thought that he was killed inside his office. We ed to have “unexplained” low blood sugar levels. tainted saline drips.
would like to send our condolences to all the Muslims in
north London and the UK. “The sheikh was very friendly The man was pronounced dead at the scene. While Officers are working closely with the Muslim Welfare
and never had an argument with anyone in the communi- detectives await formal confirmation of his identity, they House “to reassure the community during this difficult Priority on education, security
ty during his career in this mosque.” are contacting his family, who live outside Britain. A post- time. “Inquiries continue to establish the full circum-
Friday’s Fajr prayer is listed on the trust’s website as mortem examination is being arranged, the spokeswoman stances and any motive, although we believe the person
being at 04:38am.
Scotland Yard said they had made one arrest.
said.
“A man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of mur-
we have arrested attended the mosque.
“This is not believed to be a race/faith hate crime.”
Britain to ship $1.5 bln
“Police were called by London Ambulance Service at der. At this stage we are not seeking to make any further The Muslim Welfare House was founded in 1970 and
10:21am on Friday to reports of a man seriously injured
at Muslim Welfare House in Seven Sisters Road, north
arrests.”
Police have openened an incident room and are appeal-
functions as a community centre. It is a registered charity
with offices, two training centres, a youth centre, a library
in banknotes to Libya
London,” a spokeswoman said. ing for witnesses. and prayer rooms for men and women.
BENGHAZI, Libya, Sept 3, money already received was
(RTRS): Britain will ship now in the central bank
the remainder of $1.5 billion vault and would soon be dis-
Murdoch and son get big
in frozen Libyan funds to tributed to commercial
Benghazi within a week, a banks.
senior official in the rebel “We need a portion of
government said on Friday, money in hard currency
helping its new rulers to pay (non-Libyan) to open up
public workers and restore credit to buy oil products. At
order in the war-torn coun- the same time we need
bonuses, James declines
try. Libyan currency for banks
A portion of the funds to pay government salaries,”
amounting to around 280 said Mustafa el-Huni, NTC
million Libyan dinars, or
around $234 million, representative for Jufra in
reached Benghazi this week southern Libya.
already by airplane. The shortage of hard cash
The money is part of a has been a problem through-
Perkins says resignation unrelated to scandal consignment of freshly out the conflict, with long
printed Libyan dinars worth lines often forming outside
NEW YORK, Sept 3, (AP): News Corp awarded Rupert Murdoch they could quit the media company’s board. about $1.5 billion ordered banks as people sought to
James Murdoch was set to get a payout of $17.9 million, boosted by a $6 million bonus by Gaddafi from British take out their money.
and his son James big compensation increases, though James and $8.3 million in stock awards. He will now receive $11.9 million. His father’s pay was printing firm De La Rue Plc International powers met
declined his bonus, citing controversy over a phone hacking scandal boosted by a $12.5 million bonus and $8.5 million in stock awards. but blocked by Britain in in Paris on Thursday and
at the UK newspaper unit that he oversees. As head of international operations, James Murdoch has been under media and govern- March after he began a vio- agreed to make $15 billion
ment scrutiny since the hacking scandal erupted at the London tabloid News of the World lent crackdown on protests. immediately available to
The annual bonus, announced Friday, would have bumped James Murdoch’s com- on July 4. Many of the delivered the new leaders, putting to
pensation by 73 percent. His father got a 47 percent increase, bringing his compensa- There has been speculation that he would have to step down, especially after former News notes still bear the face of the test their ability to gov-
tion to $33.3 million. The awards came on the same day that two longtime directors said Corp executives challenged the accuracy of his testimony to a UK Parliamentary commit- the deposed leader, whose ern and restore order in a
tee on the phone hacking case. image elsewhere in the east- country with beleaguered
“While the financial and oper- ern city of Benghazi is open- public services and a glut
ating performance metrics on ly mocked in graffiti. of heavy weapons. It is not
which the bonus decision was “Most of it is coming by clear yet how the money
based are not associated with sea to Benghazi. It will will be transferred to
this matter, I feel that declining come in a week’s time and it Libya.
the bonus is the right thing to will be the rest of the $1.5 “Education and security
do,” Murdoch said in a state- billion,” Fathi Baja, head of — these will take a large
ment. the National Transitional
Compensation for Deputy chunk of the money,” said
Council committee for polit- Baja, referring to the $15
Chairman Chase Carey, News ical and international affairs
Corp’s highest-paid executive told Reuters. billion.
last year, rose 16 percent to “We need lots of Libya’s schools are due to
$30.2 million. finances.” start on Sept 17, despite
News of the raises may Now that NTC forces bombed-out classrooms,
prompt new questions about the have overthrown Gaddafi, scarce transport and a cur-
board’s oversight in light of the Britain is releasing the riculum based on Gaddafi’s
hacking scandal. money to ease a cash green book — an account of
James Murdoch said he will crunch. The remainder will his views of the world.
consult with the board’s com- be delivered shortly, Foreign A portion of the money
mittee about whether a bonus Secretary William Hague would be allocated to giving
may be appropriate later. said. medical care and limb
The compensation commit- A second NTC member replacements to victims of
tee’s members are independent told Reuters that the British land mines.
directors. One is Viet Dinh, a
former Justice Department assis-
tant attorney general, also is one
of the leaders of an internal com-
pany probe into the hacking
scandal.
News in Brief
Another is Silicon Valley ven-
ture capitalist Thomas Perkins,
who is leaving the board.
Perkins said Friday that said Police make new arrest: New memoir
he is not leaving the board British police arrested a 30-year-
old man on Friday in connection
because of the hacking scandal,
and said he supports Rupert
with the probe into phone hack- Darling attacks
ing at the now-defunct Rupert
Murdoch and the board.
Perkins, a director since 1996,
Murdoch-owned tabloid the
News of the World.
‘stupid’ bankers
People protest against a planned demonstration by the right-wing EDL (English Defense League), group in Tower Hamlets, east London, on
Sept 3. (AFP) said in an interview that he told The suspect was questioned LONDON, Sept 3, (AFP):
Murdoch earlier in the year he on suspicions of Britain’s former finance minis-
did not want to stand for reelec- phone hacking ter Alistair Darling has
tion this October. and perverting attacked “arrogant and stu-
‘Unduly lenient sentence quashed’ “I said I don’t think the board the course of
justice after he
pid” bankers in his new mem-
oir of life during the most tur-
should have two 80-year olds bulent period of the financial
unless one of them owns the reported to a
London police crisis.
Court criticises Blair’s wife for leniency company,” said Perkins, who
turns 80 later this year. Murdoch
turned 80 earlier this year.
Perkins said he offered to stay
station.
Police did not
identify the
Darling was particularly crit-
ical of some senior bankers,
saying the former chief exec-
utive of Royal Bank of
LONDON, Sept 3, (KUNA): The barrister working as a lawyer — and replaced it with passed by Mrs Blair had been “unduly man, who is the
for a year if needed, but then 15th suspect Scotland (RBS), Fred
wife of former Labour prime minister Tony a three-and-a-half-year jail term. Lord lenient” and a “startling result.” The appeal helped recruit fellow Silicon Kuttner Goodwin, “deserved to be a
detained on sus-
Blair was criticised by the Court of Appeal Pitchford, who sat in London with two court heard that Mrs Blair had imposed the Valley venture capitalist Jim picion of phone hacking.
pariah” for refusing to give up
Friday evening for not sending a cocaine other judges ordered Williams, 43, of suspended sentence after hearing argu- Breyer, 50, of Accel Partners, to “The man, aged 30, was
his pension after the bank
required a huge state bailout.
smuggler to jail when sitting as a judge at a Hanwell, west London, to surrender to ments from barrister Matthew Morgan, stand for election. arrested by appointment at a In “Back From The Brink:
who represented Williams. “I don’t know North London Police Station,” a
Crown Court. Appeal judge Pitchford sug- police. what spell you were casting in the Isleworth Perkins’ decision not to stand 1,000 Days At No 11”, Darling
Scotland Yard spokesman said. said: “My worry is that they
gested that Cherie Blair’s decision to Appeal judges quashed the sentence Crown Court,” Lord Pitchford told Morgan appeared controversial in light He was released on bail until (the bankers) were so arro-
impose a 12-month suspended sentence on imposed by Mrs Blair, who had been sitting at today’s hearing. “But this is a remarkable of the scandal at News Corp, January. gant and stupid they might
Lee Williams, following a trial at Isleworth as a recorder — a part-time judge, after sentence is it not?” especially when cast against The arrest came days after the bring us all down.”
Crown Court, west London, earlier this lawyers representing Conservative another spying episode. In News of the World’s former Darling compared
Lord Pitchford said cocaine smuggling
year, was “remarkable.” Attorney General Dominic Grieve asked had a “public dimension” and should nor- 2006, he Packard inboard of
Hewlett
quit the
protest
managing editor Stuart Kuttner
was re-arrested as part of the
Goodwin’s attitude to the cri-
sis with someone “off to play
The appeal court quashed the “unduly for a review. Bill Emlyn Jones, for the mally attract “lengthy” jail terms. “There is after the company spied on long-running investigation. a game of golf”, according to
lenient” sentence imposed by Mrs Blair — Attorney General — the Government’s a deficiency, in the respect of the recorder, directors and journalists to find Murdoch shut the 168-year- extracts from the book report-
who uses her maiden name Booth when chief legal adviser, argued that the sentence in her reasoning,” said Lord Pitchford. information leaks. old paper in July amid public ed on the Labour Uncut web-
outcry after it emerged that a site.
private investigator working for The former finance minis-
the tabloid had hacked into the ter, or Chancellor of the
UN expresses regret at decision Far-right activists voicemail of Milly Dowler, a Exchequer, describes Andy
missing teenage girl who was Hornby, chief executive of the
protest in London stricken HBOS, as “looking
‘Halt travellers eviction’
later found dead.
Questioned by a parliamentary like he was about to explode”
LONDON, Sept 3, (AP): Far- when confronted with the
right protesters have clashed committee the same month,
Murdoch said he was “shocked, scale of the banks’ difficulties.
GENEVA, Sept 3, (AFP): The which would disproportionately with London police during a The book, which is to be
affect the lives of the Gypsy and appalled and ashamed” when he
British government should halt demonstration held despite a ban heard about the case, but denied serialised by a Sunday news-
the planned eviction of members Traveller families, particularly on marches in six parts of he was personally responsible. paper, will also give an insight
of the travelling community from women, children and older peo- Britain’s capital. Police began investigating into former prime minister
an unauthorised site, the UN said ple,” the committee said in a Home Secretary Theresa May phone hacking in 2006, a probe Gordon Brown’s “brutal and
on Friday. statement. imposed the 30-day ban late last volcanic” demeanour.
which resulted in the jailing of a Darling was finance minis-
The United Nations “We urge the authorities to find month over fears of unrest at a private detective and the News ter from 2007 to 2010, when
Committee on the Elimination a peaceful and appropriate solu- march planned by the English of the World’s royal editor the Brown’s Labour government
of Racial Discrimination tion, including identifying cultur- Defense League on Saturday. following year. Despite a steady was voted out of power.
expressed its “deep regret” at ally appropriate accommodation, But hundreds of members stream of new claims, police did
the decision to remove the trav- with full respect for the rights of went ahead with a so-called not reopen the probe until
ellers from Dale Farm in Essex, the families involved.” “static demonstration” in the January this year. and the News of the World’s for-
eastern England, where they The group said the evictions A series of high-profile fig- mer editor Andy Coulson, who
Tower Hamlets area. ures have been arrested, includ-
began settling about a decade may breach articles 2 and 5 of the Some threw bottles and Members of the right-wing EDL (English Defense League), chant later became Prime Minister
ing former News International
ago. International Convention on the scuffled with police officers slogans as they enter Kings Cross underground station in central chief executive Rebekah Brooks David Cameron’s press chief.
“We call on the government to Elimination of All Forms of surrounding them to keep con- London after gathering at the station ahead of their protest in (AFP)
suspend the planned eviction, Racial Discrimination. trol. Whitechapel, east London on Sept 3. (AFP)